Re: Corrections to links in page http://www.gnuplot.info/docs_4.4/

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:07:04 pm pl...@pi... wrote:
> On 01/19/11 19:54, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 02:09:51 am Niall Mansfield wrote:
> >> On page
> >> 	http://www.gnuplot.info/docs_4.4/
> >        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >> the links for
> >> 	Version 4.4 (English) PDF format.
> >> and
> >> 	Gnuplot reference card (version 4.0): ... gpcard.pdf
> >> are wrong, and ought to be:
> >> 	http://www.gnuplot.info/docs_4.4/gnuplot.pdf
> >> 	http://www.gnuplot.info/docs_4.0/gpcard.pdf
> >
> > That page is not intended to be accessed directly.
> > The correct top-level documentation page is
> >      http://www.gnuplot.info/documentation.html
> >
> > I've now put in a redirection to the correct page, but is there a link to
> > the incorrect URL somewhere that we need to fix?
> >
> > 	Ethan
> >
> >
> >> Regards,
> >> Niall
> >>
> >>
> 
> Ethan, I don' t think you can say a page is "not intended to be ..." . 
> As soon as you publish a page it will get linked and will turn up in 
> search results.

I meant "not intended to be accessed directly" as
"is version specific and would better be replaced by a generic link
to the current documentation"

> The best policy would seem to be only to post valid documents on-line 
> and leave them in place for reference as newer ones become available.

It was a valid document.  But because it was accessed through a symlink,
the relative directory paths did not resolve correctly.  That part is now fixed.
But I'd still like to encourage any links that are specific to version 4.2 or 4.4
to be replaced with links that resolve to whatever is the current version, or
to the top level listing that includes links to both current and past versions.

	cheers,
	
		Ethan

 
> regards, Peter.